In VH1's Story Tellers episode featuring DCFC, Ben Gibbard mentioned that this song was about being trapt in a place and living an unordinary, boring, unspectacular life.
He uses this very common story of someone staying in a relationship, despite the fact that it isn't "real", to illustrate his broader point that most people stay where they're born, get in bad relationships, and let it ride because that's just what "normal" looks like.
The line of "There were Churches, Theme Parks & Malls" describe the fact that those three things are found around most places people live. Just another way to drive home his bigger point of complacency and not taking risks.
In VH1's Story Tellers episode featuring DCFC, Ben Gibbard mentioned that this song was about being trapt in a place and living an unordinary, boring, unspectacular life.
He uses this very common story of someone staying in a relationship, despite the fact that it isn't "real", to illustrate his broader point that most people stay where they're born, get in bad relationships, and let it ride because that's just what "normal" looks like.
The line of "There were Churches, Theme Parks & Malls" describe the fact that those three things are found around most places people live. Just another way to drive home his bigger point of complacency and not taking risks.
My apologies, I meant to say "ordinary" in the first paragraph, obviously.
My apologies, I meant to say "ordinary" in the first paragraph, obviously.